EVE General Discussion

Per topic, my corpmate and I are trying to figure out whether or not the maximum warp speed of a ship affects the time after a ship reaches 75% max velocity and begins to enter warp to the time the ship is at warp (the "boom.")

I believe it does not affect it, because if I warp in an interceptor for example my warp speed goes up after the boom. We're talking about implants basically.

So if I run the Nomad set of implants but pick the HY-2/2.5 over the Nomad Omega, I will shave more time off at max warp velocity. He is trying to discover if that affects my warp up time, which I don't think it does.

Could somebody please shed some light on this?

"Warp Speed
This article lists warp speeds for different shiptypes, as well as explaining the relevance of warp speed and the difference between warp speed and the speed of going to warp.

Most players are unaware that different shiptypes warp at different speeds, seriously impacting traveltime. As you travel between locations in a solarsystem, your ship can go to warp. To do so, it will align itself up with its destination, accelerate to 3/4 of its (current) maximum speed and enter a "warp tunnel". Once it is in the warp tunnel, it will quickly accellerate to its maximum warp speed, as listed in the table below...."


http://eve.grismar.net/wikka.php?wakka=WarpSpeed

What I'm finding difficult to get clarification on is: Do larger ships warp slower, as well as align and achieve warp speed slower. Or, as the above post says, do all ships travel while in warp at the same speed, and the only difference is alignment and achieving 3/4 impulse power. (Thanks, Scotty.)

Implants and ship mods can aid in alignment speed, as well as speed going into warp. As, once you're in warp, you're relatively invulnerable, there's no need to augment that portion of the show. What folks should be mindful of in a fleet is, the bigger ships aren't going to arrive at the same time as the smaller ones if one doesn't stagger departures to accomodate the slower ships. Unless, of course, it's no big deal if the BSs arrive a bit later than the frigs...dessies, etc.

This cannot be true, because all ships take the same amount of time to reach top speed when in warp. If the time is the same and final velocities are different, it is impossible to have the same acceleration. I've timed it to be about 6.5 seconds, regardless of ship time, from the time it goes from initiating warp to top speed.

I argue that the kinematic equations from general physics still hold. The average acceleration for a faster ship will be faster, and the distance travelled in that time is proportional to the acceleration (1/2*a*t^2)

Perhaps you should have waited for longer than 2 hours during Eve's lowest concurrent connection period to allow other pilots to offer more tangible advice.

It's still the best possible for this circumstance, but I have a problem with the fact that .75 x 1.15 = 0.8. That is incorrect, which is all I am complaining about.

No.


(Nothing changes warp acceleration because the code doesn't currently support it.)

Velocity ∝ 2^t m/s

Or in words: your ship doubles speed every second until it hits its maximum warp speed. At the other end it halves speed every second until it drops out of warp.

You can easily verify that ships accelerate at the same rate by putting a freighter and a frigate side by side, aligning to a far distant celestial, and selecting "warp to" within the same second as each other (do not fleet warp, this will warp both ships at the same warp speed). The freighter and frigate will remain side by side until their warp speed reaches the freighter's maximum, at which point each ship will perceive the other as winking out of existence.

From what I remember my malediction had an au of 13 in warp that could be augmented by rigs. so long warps could be scouted with speed. Most tech II cruiser and such have 3.75 and others like industrials have even lower warp max speeds.

I don't know how the build up between ships is compared though, I think it is an exponential thing where you build up au speed faster and faster until you reach your max.

I believe its doubled from a 'base warp speed' as opposed to the speed of the ship before it enters warp. The base warp speed is the same for all ships, otherwise the faster ships would accelerate faster which has already been proven incorrect.

Uhm ... isn't the decelleration phase much longer then the acceleration phase ??